Hacker News: eevee

New comment by eevee in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

eevee — Sun, 23 May 2021 09:14:23 +0000

What most fascinates me about this whole kerfuffle is your adamant refusal to take responsibility for anything. All I've seen from you is continued insistence that nothing is your fault, accompanied by pages of nigh incomprehensible "evidence" that doesn't seem relevant to anything that's actually happened.

The facts of note seem to be: (1) you are, for whatever reason, in charge of freenode; (2) the very first moment you attempted to make use of that position, you destroyed freenode.

That is a *catastrophic* management failure on your part, and the fact that I haven't seen so much as a "my bad" from you is appalling beyond words. Despite how much you claim to care about freenode, you are clearly more concerned with your own image.

New comment by eevee in "Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons"

eevee — Mon, 06 May 2019 06:23:30 +0000

Okay. Now malware addons are signed, and nothing has been accomplished.

New comment by eevee in "Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons"

eevee — Mon, 06 May 2019 05:00:38 +0000

This "bizarre policy" was software signing, which is in fact a security feature.

I don't understand what "getting their act together" means here, when you're posting it on an announcement that the problem has already been fixed. Should Firefox proactively remove all security features that risk ever posing some modicum of inconvenience to users? Because that would be... all of them.

New comment by eevee in "Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?"

eevee — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:43:07 +0000

but hey, that's what CWs are for

New comment by eevee in "Google will kill Python 3, and it might be a good thing"

eevee — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:24:05 +0000

It's bad that the runtime is fragmented. Google will fix it by creating a new runtime

New comment by eevee in "PyPy 5.0 Released"

eevee — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:18:33 +0000

"Once the commercial world catches up to python 3..."

fwiw, lack of PyPy support is one of the most common reasons I hear for people being leery of Python 3. Of course the people using PyPy aren't the people excited to move to Python 3, if they're effectively mutually exclusive.

New comment by eevee in "Code that will break in Python 4"

eevee — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:55:05 +0000

What do you do when a value passes between major versions which have different implementations of its type? What do you do with the `int` type, which was actually two separate types in Python 2? What do you do when the binary representation of strings changes (as it did in the 3 series) and you want to pass that into Python 2 land? What do you do about extension modules written in C, which many popular Python libraries use to speed up hot code? Do you include copies of both standard libraries, meaning you now have duplicate modules and may get one or the other depending on the tag in your file? Which version of Python 2 do you target? What happens when there's a bug in one Python 2 implementation but not the other? How do you handle having two C APIs at the same time?

You mention C++ as though it worked out great, but C++ is still full of sharp edges and features that interact weirdly with its C legacy, and it has never completely replaced C (especially for libraries). And that's despite having a few advantages that made it possible in the first place, like having a completely different stdlib built on top of the C stdlib, and producing machine code rather than compiling for a VM on the fly.

New comment by eevee in "The Website Obesity Crisis"

eevee — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:40:47 +0000

The default text size in every browser, as far as I'm aware, is actually 16px. The text on Hacker News is 12px, because virtually every designer decides they know better than the browser settings.

Which one are you thinking of as the "default"?

New comment by eevee in "Make a Doom level, part 2: design"

eevee — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:31:58 +0000

Overall, I don't think Doom 2 is actually much more abstract than Doom 1. I suspect the real difference is that all of Romero's levels were clumped together in the shareware episode of Doom 1, which is what everyone remembers. Sandy Petersen (who does the really abstract weird stuff) did episodes 2 and 3, but his Doom 2 levels were strewn throughout the game, even in the Earth-like sections that you'd expect to be more realistic.

New comment by eevee in "Copyright is Broken"

eevee — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:22:39 +0000

"Yes, hello, Nintendo? Let's talk business. I'm a starving artist and I want to sell some Pikachu buttons."

New comment by eevee in "Copyright is Broken"

eevee — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:12:16 +0000

Why not? It's your work. You can't really be competing with Nintendo, because they can't create that same picture, because they don't employ you. Also you are extremely unlikely to be making a material impact on the bottom line of a multi-billion-dollar international media company.

Also, this is a thing many people already do, so I'm really advocating that it's fine for them to continue doing it.

New comment by eevee in "Copyright is Broken"

eevee — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:08:29 +0000

You seem to be assuming that derivative work doesn't require hard work of its own. I tried to make the point that this game is itself a derivative of other things, without which it couldn't exist.

Even if you did do that: why would anyone buy it in lieu of the original?

New comment by eevee in "Copyright is Broken"

eevee — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:06:10 +0000

Undertale doesn't have achievements, leaderboards, modding, or multiplayer. I think it has cloud save, but it's like a 6-hour game so that's not a particularly alluring feature here.

New comment by eevee in "Copyright is Broken"

eevee — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:04:04 +0000

I'm not talking about putting someone else's art on buttons. I'm talking about artists putting their own art on buttons.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:27:48 +0000

I hope you can imagine why I might not want to reinstall the OS and have to redeploy half a dozen other things, just so this particular one gets easier.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:12:28 +0000

You lost me right around the point where you compared x86 vs x86_64 to a toaster and a teapot.

Nothing about Ruby forum software necessitates a 64-bit kernel. (Which I have, incidentally.) According to Docker, nothing about Docker necessitates a 64-bit kernel either! It's an entirely arbitrary requirement, inherited by the forum software for support reasons rather than technical reasons, and for some reason you are blaming me for not meeting it.

I certainly believe that people manage the 30 minute installation. I would've been much happier if I managed it as well.

And Web deployments must suck, or we wouldn't need Docker. Right? I mean, the whole appeal is that we can take all this arduous ad-hoc crap and just shove it in a box. Unfortunately, it's still arduous ad-hoc crap; we just don't have to look at it as often now.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:34:01 +0000

Last time I complained about this, a few people said exactly the same thing, but naming a different product.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:33:24 +0000

It also warns you if you try to use gmail to send mail, because gmail throttles you to only sending 2000 emails per 24 hours.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:32:14 +0000

I observe that they'll happily charge you $99 to install it on your machine for you.

New comment by eevee in "The sad state of web app deployment"

eevee — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:30:55 +0000

Actually I suggest writing less code, assuming that Docker is a whole lot of code and "what if we write down dependencies" is more interface than code.